Separable fastener



Nov. 17, 1936. H. WENER SEPARABLE FASTENER Filed March 19, 1936 lNVENTOR HARQL. o WEN'E'A ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 17, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to a fastener, and more especially to a fastener of the hook and eye type that is machine sewn to a garment.

An important object of this invention is to provide a fastener that is relatively light in weight, strong, inexpensive to manufacture, and will remain secured to a garment because it will be machine sewn to such garment.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, as will hereinafter become apparent, this invention comprises the constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, hereinafter set forth, disclosed and shown on the accompanying drawing. In this drawing,

Figure 1 is a plan view of the hook and eye as applied to the garment,

Figure 2 is a sectional view of the hook and eye when hooked,

Figure 3 is a detail perspective view of the hook only, and

Figure 4 is a detail perspective view of the eye.

There is shown at ID a garment which has a hook member ll formed out of a single piece of wire twisted into the formation of four generally oval shaped loops [2, I3, I4, and I5, respectively. Each of these loops are connected together by the continuation of the wire at I6 and [l which are parallelly spaced apart and this same single piece of wire assumes bends I9 and 20 at the juncture of the loops l2 and I3 thereby forming the hook per se 2|.

The eye member II is also formed out of a single piece of wire twisted into the formation of four generally oval shaped loops I2, I3, I l and I5, respectively. Likewise, each of these loops are connected by the continuation of wire at I6 and H which are parallelly spaced apart. This same single piece of wire assumes a bend at the juncture of loops I2 and [3' with wire portions l6 and I1, thereby forming the eye per se 22.

Each of the four oval shaped loops of the hook and eye respectively is shaped so as to form an internal angle A, the angles of loops I2 and I4, l3 and I5, l2 and I4, [3' and I5 forming pairs of angles, the point of each angle of a pair facing the point of the other angle of the same pair. In practice it has been found that it is very important to have such an internal angle so that the threads 23 will not wobble therein to loosen the hook and eye, even though the hook and eye are sewn by machine. This greatly reduces the cost of applying hooks and eyes to garments and avoids the necessity of having them hand sewn.

The novel features and the operation of this device will be apparent from the foregoing description. While the device has been shown and the structure described in detail, it is obvious that this is not to be considered limited to the exact form disclosed and that changes may be made therein within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus set forth and disclosed the nature of this invention, what is claimed is:

A fastening means for a hook and eye separable fastener, said fastening means comprising loops arranged in a plurality of pairs on said hook and eye elements, each pair of loops arranged in opposed relationship considered longitudinally of the hook and eye elements respectively, each loop having a portion defining an internal angle, the point of each angled portion of one of a pair of opposed loops facing the point of the other angled portion of the other of the same pair of loops, each pair of opposed loops adapted to receive a fastening thread.

HAROLD WENER. 

